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John McTiernan was convicted for making false statements to FBI agents while they were building an illegal-wiretapping case against celebrity private investigator Anthony Pellicano.

Updated at 6:52 AM PDT on Wednesday, Jan 16, 2013

No more sequels for John McTiernan.

Prison looms for the 62-year-old "Die Hard" director after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his conviction for making false statements to FBI agents while they were building an illegal-wiretapping case against celebrity private investigator Anthony Pellicano, who's been behind bars since 2006.

He was indicted a second time, pleaded guilty as a formality in order to give him the opportunity to appeal after he failed to prevent a key piece of evidence from being used against him, and was sentenced to a year in federal prison and fined $100,000.

In August, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his petition to have the conviction thrown out, paving the way for him to start serving a year-long prison sentence, but Team McTiernan opted to try its hand with the highest court in the land.